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Jamie Spooner
Jamie Spooner started selling her work at age six in a small Connecticut town that catered to New York and Boston tourists. She drew illustrations of animals, matted them and sat on Main Street, holding up the drawings and saying, “Would you like to buy my art?” This entrepreneurial spirit returned again at 12 years old, but in this case she moved away from animals to caricatures of people for 25 cents an image. That summer she received a commission request for boat drawings from a local yacht club and a whopping $250 for her caricatures. “I did not actually do 1,000 caricatures—sometimes I got an entire dollar as a tip!”
Jamie continued illustrating through high school, winning awards such as a first place in a local Connecticut art gallery contest for a drawing of a lounging bather. She also provided editorial illustrations for the New Haven Register and Tidings Magazine. When it came down to choosing a college she chose Smith College well known for its Studio Art department. Jamie has B.A. in Studio Art from Smith.
Directly after college Jamie took a more commercial route to her career, first teaching Studio Art and Photography at a boarding school in Switzerland, and then returning to the east coast as Art Director for various advertising firms in Boston. Jamie switched gears from print advertising to online design in 1994, when at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle she became a Lead Design Program Manager, creating the design direction for 30 or more web sites produced by Microsoft. Jamie designed the second Microsoft Corporation Web site in 1995. She continued to direct the art design for several high profile Web sites for Microsoft including the design of the Windows Media Player interface, the design of the Windows 98 site launch (over 1,000 web pages), and several marketing presentation designs for Bill Gates. Jamie holds a patent for an Internet Radio Toolbar created for the Windows Media Web site interface.
In March 2000 Jamie left Microsoft to start Planeteria, a web site design and development company. One of her first web site clients was the Microsoft Alumni Network and a 1000+ Web site servicing thousands of ex-Microsoft employees. Although Jamie enjoyed Seattle she managed a road trip to the Sonoma County area in May of 2000 and fell in love with the area. She purchased a house just a couple months later and moved to Sonoma County in April 2001. Planeteria, Inc. is a vibrant business with a 10-person team servicing hundreds of clients in the bay area including the City of Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa Camber of Commerce, San Francisco Zoo, St. Joseph Health System, River Rock Casino, North Bay Builders Exchange and Microsoft Corporation.
Jamie’s artistic influences include: Daumier, Manet, Degas, Modigliani, Niki de Saint Phalle, Lichtenstein (and a little bit of Gary Larson).
To see her art, go to www.jamiespooner.com
Jamie Spooner
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